Kommunen - Utopian Communes in the New World 1740 – 1972 Katharina Seiser ’ Jeet Thayil ‘The Guyanese

’ Jeet Thayil ‘The Guyanese William Blake … Such poetic intensity

I swim around the octopus

The Confederacy of the Green Door

As precarity and low pay become further embedded in the job market

Kommunen - Utopian Communes in the New World 1740 – 1972 Katharina Seiser ’ Jeet Thayil ‘The GuyaneseFirst published nearly fifty years ago,"Kommunen in der Neuen Welt 17401972" handles its subject matter with precision and brevity; it is an excellent introduction to the fantastical reality of utopian life in the New World. Nothing about how we live today is sustainable. Therefore, a profound paradigm shift is imminent (indeed is already underway). To paraphrase Marx and Engels, all that is solid has melted into air, all that was sacred has been